He drove his teenage daughter, Jordan, to school and worked part-time at Borders bookstore.

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In 1999 the city council tried, unsuccessfully, to ban a Borders bookstore by requiring a special permit for ground-floor stores of more than 16, 000 square feet.

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Borders got its start back in 1971, when two brothers, Tom and Louis Borders, launched a used bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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The bankruptcy filing will likely lead to greater sales at Amazon, especially for Borders customers who may not have another nearby bookstore.

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Borders Group, one of the two main brick-and-mortar bookstore competitors to online-only retailer Amazon , recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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In a recent editorial, Ray Kurzweil, futurist and Singularity Chancellor, compared the current university model to the bookstore model, suggesting that universities will be undermined by online the way that digital books undermined Borders.

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